Members of the Nasielsk Society for Remembrance and Reconciliation are  individuals and families who have ancestral connections to the Jewish community of Nasielsk, Poland. Some of our community members lived in Nasielsk at the time of WWII and miraculously survived the Shoah. Others are descendants of family members who were not as fortunate and perished in the Holocaust. Some members lived in Nasielsk for a period of time, but left before the war and settled elsewhere. Still others, having been born in other countries, trace our ancestry to the Jewish community in Nasielsk.  We are a community from all over the world and of all different ages who volunteer our time and effort to honor and remember the once vibrant Jewish community of Nasielsk. 

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The first  Facebook page was created in 2014 after a group of Jewish descendants visited Nasielsk for the first large-scale return of descendants to the town. In the intervening years, the descendants' group has grown into a much more varied organization. We have placed a historical marker at the cemetery; erected a memorial gate; and we are involved in community educational programs in Nasielsk's schools to preserve the memory and history of the town's Jewish community.

 

The name of our organization reflects and honors the two previous "Nasielsk Societies." The first was a Landsmanshaft organized in the early 1900s by emigrants to the United States who wished to support their relatives in the Old Country. The more recent "Nashelsker Society" was an outgrowth of the first and was led after World War II by Benjamin Bendat and Abe and Joseph Korn of Los Angeles. This society helped to build houses in Kiryat Ono, Israel, for Holocaust survivors from Nasielsk.

 

The new Nasielsk Society for Remembrance and Reconciliation is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit that coordinates these many different efforts to preserve the history and memory of Nasielsk's Jewish community, both in the town and around the world. It serves equally as a virtual community for members to share historical recollection and genealogical information, and it fosters and encourages participation in the group's ongoing activities in Poland.